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Canonical has wrapped up a furious first quarter cycle of software releases with the roll out of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. While the Precise Pangolin doesn’t offer anything new or groundbreaking, it wraps all of the company’s enterprise offerings into one nice neat package for sysadmins.

Mark Shuttleworth has just announced that HP is certifying Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for its ProLiant Server line. While Canonical certain will benefit from the legitimacy that a partnership with HP brings, it’s Hewlett-Packard itself that is gaining the most in the deal.

Canonical has released a tool for provisioning bare metal hardware called “MAAS” that blurs the lines on how we look at physical resources. Will “metal as a service” be the de-facto standard when it comes to cloud infrastructure?

Canonical is moving forward with its plans to put Ubuntu on a broader range of devices with the announcement of Ubuntu for Android today. While it runs on mobile devices, it isn’t a mobile OS. Read more to find out what we mean.

Today’s cloud storage market is flooded with competition, all offering similar services. Dropbox, Box.net, Amazon Cloud Storage, Minus.com, Memopal, Windows SkyDrive, Google Docs (of a sort) and, finally, Ubuntu One. But which is the best service? Is the most storage for free the criteria that makes it the best? Security? Ease of use? Least annoying?

Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” dropped today, bringing with it a smooth new look and a much-needed upgrade to the Ubuntu Software Center. Take a stroll with us through some screens of the new release and check out the eye-candy that Ubuntu Unity brings to the masses.

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